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Definitions

• the present invention relates to organic light emitting diode (OLED), full-color display devices and, more particularly, to OLED color displays with improved gamut and power efficiency.
• each display element or pixel is composed of red, green, and blue colored OLEDs.
• OLEDs may be used to generate color directly using organic materials that are doped to emit energy in desired portions of the electromagnetic spectrum.
• the known red and blue emissive materials do not have particularly high luminance efficiencies.
• materials with higher luminance efficiencies are known in the art.
• hile power efficiency is always desirable, it is particularly desirable in portable applications because an inefficient display limits the time the device can be used before the power source is recharged.
• Portable applications may also require the display to be used in locations with high ambient illumination, requiring the display to provide imagery with a high luminance level to be useful, further increasing the power required to present adequate imagery.
• Fig. 1 shows a 1931 CIE standard photopic sensitivity curve 2. This curve relates the relative efficiency of the human eye to convert electromagnetic energy to perceived brightness as a function of wavelength within the visible spectrum.
• Electromagnetic energy that is weighted by this curve is commonly referred to as luminance, an entity that correlates with perceived brightness under a broad range of viewing conditions.
• display devices have been constructed from a triad of red, green, and blue light emitting elements.
• the peak wavelengths of these light emitting elements will typically be in the short wavelength portion of the visible spectrum (e.g., at or near point 4) for blue, the middle wavelength portion of the visible spectrum (e.g., at or near point 6) for green, and the long wavelength portion of the visible spectrum (e.g., at or near point 8) for red.
• Fig. 2 shows a CIE 1931 chromaticity diagram with the chromaticity coordinates of typical red 12, green 14 and blue 16 light emitting elements.
• the color gamut 18 may be defined by a triangle that connects these points within the chromaticity diagram. To improve the color gamut of the display device, the area within this triangle must be increased. To increase this color gamut, the peak wavelength of the blue light emitting element will typically be reduced, providing energy that is even shorter in wavelength and further reducing the eye's sensitivity to the radiant energy provided by the light emitting element. Similarly, to increase the color gamut, the peak wavelength of the red light emitting element must be increased, producing energy that is even longer in wavelength and further reducing the eye's sensitivity to the radiant energy provided by the light emitting element. For this reason, the goals of providing increased color gamut and reduced power consumption typically compete with one another.
• Such different luminance stabilities can cause mis- ⁇ matched luminance efficiency changes to occur in the OLEDs over time, and limit the effective overall lifetime of the display device. It is possible to utilize one or more additional light emitting elements in addition to red, green and blue elements.
• US2003/0011613 by Booth, Jan. 16, 2003 e.g., describes a display device with red, green, blue and cyan light emitting elements. This application discusses the fact that blue light emitting elements typically have a lower luminance efficiency than a cyan emitter. This patent application also discusses the use of a three to four color conversion matrix to convert a three-color input signal to a four-color signal.
• US Patent 6,750,584 by Cok, et al., March 27, 2003 describes OLED display devices having an additional cyan, yellow, and or magenta OLEDs that are utilized to increase the color gamut of the display device. While this patent does discuss the need to convert from an input three-color input signal to a four or more color signal, it does not describe a method to utilize these OLEDs in a way to reduce the power consumption of the display device.
• US2002/0191130 by Liang et al, December 19, 2002 discusses a display employing pairs of complementary colors (e.g., blue, yellow, red, and green). While this patent application does not discuss a method for providing color mixing, this display device structure enables the creation of flat white fields that employ all four light emitting elements.
• the display By providing flat white fields that employ all four light emitting elements per pixel, the display provides uniform areas of near-neutral colors. However, since this method utilizes all four light emitting elements in a pixel to produce white, power consumption is not necessarily reduced.
• Display systems employing three to four color conversion are also known in the art of projection displays. For example, a method proposed by Morgan et al. in US 6,453,067 issued September 17, 2002, teaches an approach to calculating the intensity of the white primary dependent on the minimum of the red, green, and blue intensities, and subsequently calculating modified red, green, and blue intensities via scaling.
• Tanioka in US 5,929,843, issued July 27, 1999 provides a method that follows an algorithm analogous to the familiar CMYK approach, assigning the minimum of the R, G, and B signals to the W signal and subtracting the same from each of the R, G, and B signals.
• the method teaches a variable scale factor applied to the minimum signal that results in smoother colors at low luminance levels. While each of these patents discuss three to four color conversion, neither provides a method to convert from three colors to three in-gamut colors and a fourth color that is outside a triangle connecting the color coordinates of the red, green, and blue emitters when plotted in a CIE chromaticity diagram.
• the present invention is directed towards a color OLED display device comprising: a) an array of light emitting pixels, each pixel having red, green, and blue OLEDs and at least one additional colored OLED that expands the gamut of the display device relative to the gamut defined by the red, green and blue OLEDs, wherein the luminance efficiency or the luminance stability over time of the additional OLED is higher than the luminance efficiency or the luminance stability over time of at least one of the red, green, and blue OLEDs; and b) means for selectively driving the OLEDs with a drive signal to reduce overall power usage or extend the lifetime of the display while maintaining display color accuracy.
• the present invention provides a color display device with improved power efficiency, longer overall lifetime, expanded color gamut with accurate hues, and improved spatial image quality.
• Fig. 1 is a graph showing the photopic luminosity function, which relates the human eye's sensitivity to electromagnetic energy as a function of wavelength.
• Fig. 2 is a CIE chromaticity diagram showing coordinates for red, green, and blue OLEDs;
• Fig. 3 is a graph showing photopic efficiency as a function of chromaticity coordinates;
• Fig. 4 is a CIE chromaticity diagram showing coordinates for red, green, blue and yellow OLEDs;
• Fig. 5 is a schematic diagram illustrating a pattern of OLEDs according to one embodiment of the present invention;
• Fig. 1 is a graph showing the photopic luminosity function, which relates the human eye's sensitivity to electromagnetic energy as a function of wavelength.
• Fig. 2 is a CIE chromaticity diagram showing coordinates for red, green, and blue OLEDs
• Fig. 3 is a graph showing photopic efficiency as a function of chromaticity coordinates
• Fig. 4 is
• FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram illustrating a cross section of a series of OLEDs according to one embodiment of the present invention
• Fig. 7 is a schematic diagram illustrating a cross section of a series of OLEDs according to an alternative embodiment of the present invention
• Figs. 8 and 9 are segments of a flow chart illustrating an algorithm useful for programming a computer for mapping from conventional three color data to four OLEDs without any loss in saturation
• Fig. 10 is a graph showing the luminance output of a typical OLED as a function of a code value.
• Fig. 11 is a flow chart illustrating an algorithm useful for programming a computer for altering the color mapping to reduce spatial artifacts near edges.
• Fig. 11 is a flow chart illustrating an algorithm useful for programming a computer for altering the color mapping to reduce spatial artifacts near edges.
• FIG. 12 is a schematic diagram illustrating a display system employing a display device of the present invention wherein the performance of the display device is altered based upon a control signal.
• Fig. 13 is a schematic diagram illustrating a pattern of OLEDs arranged in one possible pixel pattern according to an alternative embodiment of the present invention;
• Fig. 14 is a schematic diagram illustrating a pattern of OLEDs arranged in one possible pixel pattern according to a further alternative embodiment of the present invention;
• Fig. 15 is a schematic diagram illustrating a pattern of OLEDs arranged in one possible pixel pattern according to a further embodiment of the present invention; and
• Fig. 16 is a schematic diagram illustrating a pattern of OLEDs arranged in one possible pixel pattern according to a further embodiment of the present invention.
• the present invention is directed to a full-color display device having a red, green, and blue OLED with one or more additional OLEDs that expand the color gamut, wherein the one or more additional OLEDs have a higher luminance efficiency or luminance stability over time than at least one of the red, green or blue OLEDs.
• a signal processor associated with the display converts a standard three-color image signal to drive signals that drive the OLEDs in a way as to reduce the power consumption of the display or extend the lifetime of the display as compared to the same display when all colors are formed using only the red, green, and blue OLEDs, while maintaining display color accuracy. This conversion process may be adjusted in response to use or display conditions.
• the additional OLED is ideally positioned within the CIE chromaticity space such that its use may replace a less efficient OLED when forming a color at or near the white point of the display.
• the inventors have demonstrated that the typical power savings can be increased from a savings on the order of 10 percent when the less efficient OLED does not eliminate the use of a less luminance efficient OLED when forming the most frequently occurring colors (those near white) to savings of more than 25 percent when the more efficient OLED eliminates the need to use a less efficient OLED to form the most frequently occurring colors.
• the power consumption of the display device can therefore be reduced by introducing one or more additional light emitting elements with a higher luminance efficiency than one of the light emitting elements and the energy from this light emitting element may be used to reduce the use of one or more of the light emitting elements having a lower luminance efficiency, typically the red 12 and/or blue 16 light emitting element.
• luminance efficiency refers to the efficiency of an OLED emitter to produce luminance when driven to a known current. This entity is commonly measured in units of candelas per amp. Looking again at Fig.
• the additional primary such that its CIE chromaticity coordinate is plotted to the left of a line adjoining the CIE chromaticity coordinate of the blue light emitting element 16 and the chromaticity coordinate of the green light emitting element 14.
• this light emitting element will be referred to as a cyan OLED.
• the CIE chromaticity coordinate of the additional primary may be such that it is plotted to the right of a line adjoining the CIE chromaticity coordinate of the green light emitting 14 and the CIE chromaticity coordinate of the red light emitting element 12.
• a light emitting element In an OLED display such a light emitting element will be referred to as a yellow OLED. Again it will be recognized that the most common color name that may be assigned to any particular OLED within this space may not necessarily be yellow.
• cyan light emitting elements may be created that are higher in efficiency than blue light emitting elements.
• yellow light emitting elements may be created that are higher in efficiency than red light emitting elements.
• photopic efficiency efficiency of the human eye
• the color of the emitter can be illustrated by plotting photopic efficiency as a function of chromaticity coordinate for representative, single peak, spectra as shown in Fig. 3.
• photopic efficiency is highest (point 20) for a single peak spectra that has a chromaticity coordinate of (.12, .85), and declines following a monotonic function as the y coordinate on the CIE chromaticity coordinate decreases. Therefore, the photopic efficiency of a blue spectra (e.g., point 22) and the photopic efficiency of a red spectra (e.g., point 24) are very close to zero.
• Fig. 4 shows the CIE chromaticity coordinates of OLEDs in a display device in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention.
• This display device includes red 30, green 32, and blue 34 OLEDs as are present within prior-art display devices.
• This display device additionally includes an additional yellow 36 OLED.
• Figure 4 also shows the white point of the display 38.
• a triangle 40 is shown connecting the chromaticity coordinates of the red 30, green 32, and yellow 36 OLEDs that enclose the white point of the display device. Since this triangle encloses the white point of the display, the most frequently occurring colors (e.g., white and near white colors) can be created from the combination of the high luminance efficiency green OLED, a high luminance efficiency yellow OLED, and the blue light emitting OLED element To reduce the power consumption of the display device a three to four color conversion must be provided that takes maximum advantage of the most efficient light emitting elements. This function is provided by a signal processor that converts a standard color image signal to a power saving image signal that is employed to drive the display of the present invention, without compromising color accuracy.
• a signal processor that converts a standard color image signal to a power saving image signal that is employed to drive the display of the present invention, without compromising color accuracy.
• the present invention can be employed in most OLED device configurations that allow four or more OLEDs per pixel. These include very unsophisticated structures comprising a separate anode and cathode per OLED to more sophisticated devices, such as passive-matrix displays having orthogonal arrays of anodes and cathodes to form pixels, and active-matrix displays where each pixel is controlled independently, for example, with a thin-film transistor (TFT).
• the present invention may comprise an arrangement of OLED light emitting elements as shown in Fig. 5. As shown in this figure, the display device 50 includes an array of pixels 52, each pixel consisting of red 54, green 56, blue 58 and yellow 60 OLEDs. A schematic diagram of a cross section of one embodiment of such a display is shown in Fig.
• each pixel 72 of the display device has four OLEDs.
• Each OLED is formed on a transparent substrate 76.
• a transparent anode 86 is then formed over the color filter followed by the layers typically used to construct an OLED display.
• the OLED materials include a hole injecting layer 88, a hole transporting layer 90, a light emitting layer 92 and an electron transporting layer 94. Finally a cathode 96 is formed.
• the substrate may alternatively be located adjacent to the cathode, or the substrate may actually constitute the anode or cathode.
• the organic layers between the anode and cathode are conveniently referred to as the organic light emitting layer.
• the total combined thickness of the organic light emitting layer is preferably less than 500 nm.
• the device may be a top-emitting device wherein light is emitted through a cover or a bottom-emitting device that emits light through a substrate (as shown in Fig. 6).
• a bottom-emitting OLED device according to the present invention is typically provided over a supporting substrate 76 on which is patterned the color filters. Either the cathode or anode can be in contact with the color filters and the substrate.
• the electrode in contact with the substrate is conventionally referred to as the bottom electrode.
• the bottom electrode is the anode, but this invention is not limited to that configuration.
• the substrate can either be light fransmissive or opaque, depending on the intended direction of light emission. The light fransmissive property is desirable for viewing the EL emission through the substrate. Transparent glass or plastic is commonly employed in such cases.
• the fransmissive characteristic of the bottom support is immaterial, and therefore can be light fransmissive, light absorbing or light reflective.
• Substrates for use in this case include, but are not limited to, glass, plastic, semiconductor materials, silicon, ceramics, and circuit board materials. Of course it is necessary to provide in these device configurations a light-transparent top electrode.
• the anode should be transparent or substantially transparent to the emission of interest.
• Common transparent anode materials used in this invention are indium-tin oxide (ITO), indium-zinc oxide (IZO) and tin oxide, but other metal oxides can work including, but not limited to, aluminum- or indium-doped zinc oxide, magnesium- indium oxide, and nickel-tungsten oxide.
• metal nitrides such as gallium nitride
• metal selenides such as zinc selenide
• metal sulfides such as zinc sulfide
• Example conductors for this application include, but are not limited to, gold, iridium, molybdenum, palladium, and platinum.
• Typical anode materials, fransmissive or otherwise, have a work function of 4.1 eN or greater. Desired anode materials are commonly deposited by any suitable means such as evaporation, sputtering, chemical vapor deposition, or electrochemical means.
• Anodes can be patterned using well-known photolithographic processes. It is often useful to provide a hole-injecting layer 88 between the anode 86 and hole-transporting layer 90. The hole-injecting material can serve to improve the film formation property of subsequent organic layers and to facilitate injection of holes into the hole-transporting layer.
• Suitable materials for use in the hole-injecting layer include, but are not limited to, porphyrinic compounds as described in US 4,720,432, and plasma-deposited ftuorocarbon polymers as described in US 6,208,075.
• Alternative hole-injecting materials reportedly useful in organic EL devices are described in EP 0891 121 Al and EP 1 029909 Al.
• the hole-transporting layer 90 contains at least one hole- transporting compound such as an aromatic tertiary amine, where the latter is understood to be a compound containing at least one trivalent nitrogen atom that is bonded only to carbon atoms, at least one of which is a member of an aromatic ring.
• the aromatic tertiary amine can be an arylamine, such as a monoarylamine, diarylamine, triarylamine, or a polymeric arylamine.
• arylamine such as a monoarylamine, diarylamine, triarylamine, or a polymeric arylamine.
• Exemplary monomeric triarylamines are illustrated by Klupfel et al. in US 3,180,730.
• Other suitable triarylamines substituted with one or more vinyl radicals and/or comprising at least one active hydrogen containing group are disclosed by Brantley et al. in US 3,567,450 and 3,658,520.
• a more preferred class of aromatic tertiary amines are those which include at least two aromatic tertiary amine moieties as described in US 4,720,432 and 5,0 1 ,569.
• the hole-transporting layer can be formed of a single or a mixture of aromatic tertiary amine compounds.
• aromatic tertiary amines are the following: 1 , 1 -Bis(4-di- >-tolylaminophenyl)cyclohexane 1,1 -Bis(4-di-j5-tolylaminophenyl)-4-phenylcyclohexane 4,4'-Bis(diphenylamino)quadriphenyl Bis(4-dimethylamino-2-methylphenyl)-phenylmethane N,N,N-Tri(p-tolyl)amine 4-(di-p-tolylamino)-4'-[4(di-p-tolylamino)-styryl]stilbene N,N,N , ,N , -Tetra- j p-tolyl-4-4 , -diaminobi ⁇ henyl N,N,
• polymeric hole-transporting materials can be used such as poly(N-vinylcarbazole) (PVK), polythiophenes, polypyrrole, polyaniline, and copolymers such as poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) / ⁇ oly(4-styrenesulfonate) also called PEDOT/PSS.
• PVK poly(N-vinylcarbazole)
• polythiophenes polypyrrole
• polyaniline polyaniline
• copolymers such as poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) / ⁇ oly(4-styrenesulfonate) also called PEDOT/PSS.
• the light- emitting layer (LEL) 92 of the organic light emitting layer includes a luminescent or fluorescent material where electroluminescence is produced as a result of electron-hole pair recombination in this region.
• the light-emitting layer can be comprised of a single material, but more commonly consists of a host material doped with a guest compound or compounds where light emission comes primarily from the dopant and can be of any color.
• the host materials in the light- emitting layer can be an electron-transporting material, as defined below, a hole- transporting material, as defined above, or another material or combination of materials that support hole-electron recombination.
• the dopant is usually chosen from highly fluorescent dyes, but phosphorescent compounds, e.g., transition metal complexes as described in WO 98/55561, WO 00/18851, WO 00/57676, and WO 00/70655 are also useful.
• Dopants are typically coated as 0.01 to 10 % by weight into the host material.
• Polymeric materials such as polyfluorenes and polyvinylarylenes (e.g., poly(p-phenylenevinylene), PPN) can also be used as the host material.
• small molecule dopants can be molecularly dispersed into the polymeric host, or the dopant could be added by copolymerizing a minor constituent into the host polymer.
• An important relationship for choosing a dye as a dopant is a comparison of the bandgap potential which is defined as the energy difference between the highest occupied molecular orbital and the lowest unoccupied molecular orbital of the molecule.
• Host and emitting molecules known to be of use include, but are not limited to, those disclosed in US 4,769,292; 5,141,671; 5,150,006; 5,151,629; 5,405,709; 5,484,922; 5,593,788; 5,645,948; 5,683,823; 5,755,999; 5,928,802; 5,935,720; 5,935,721; and 6,020,078.
• CO- 1 Aluminum trisoxine [alias, tris(8-quinolinolato)aluminum(III)]
• CO-2 Magnesium bisoxine [alias, bis(8-quinolinolato)magnesium(II)]
• CO-3 Bis[benzo ⁇ f ⁇ -8-quinolinolato]zinc (II)
• CO-4 Bis(2-methyl-8-quinolinolato)aluminum(III)- ⁇ -oxo-bis(2-methyl-8- quinolinolato) aluminum(III)
• CO-6 Aluminum tris(5-methyloxine) [alias, tris(5-methyl-8-quinolinola
• Useful fluorescent dopants include, but are not limited to, derivatives of anthracene, tetracene, xanthene, perylene, rubrene, coumarin, rhodamine, quinacridone, dicyanomethylenepyran compounds, thiopyran compounds, polymethine compounds, pyrilium and thiapyrilium compounds, fluorene derivatives, periflanthene derivatives and carbostyryl compounds.
• Electron-Transporting Layer Preferred thin film-forming materials for use in forming the electron-transporting layer 94 of the organic light emitting layers of this invention are metal chelated oxinoid compounds, including chelates of oxine itself (also commonly referred to as 8-quinolinol or 8-hydroxyquinoline). Such compounds help to inject and transport electrons, exhibit high levels of performance, and are readily fabricated in the form of thin films. Exemplary oxinoid compounds were listed previously.
• Other electron-transporting materials include various butadiene derivatives as disclosed in US 4,356,429 and various heterocyclic optical brighteners as described in US 4,539,507. Benzazoles and triazines are also useful electron-transporting materials.
• layers 92 and 94 can optionally be collapsed into a single layer that serves the function of supporting both light emission and electron transport. These layers can be collapsed in both small molecule OLED systems and in polymeric OLED systems.
• a hole-transporting layer such as PEDOT-PSS with a polymeric light-emitting layer such as PPV.
• PPN serves the function of supporting both light emission and electron transport.
• the cathode 96 used in this invention can be comprised of nearly any conductive material. Desirable materials have good film-forming properties to ensure good contact with the underlying organic layer, promote electron injection at low voltage, and have good luminance stability over time.
• cathode materials often contain a low work function metal ( ⁇ 4.0 eN) or metal alloy.
• One preferred cathode material is comprised of a Mg: Ag alloy wherein the percentage of silver is in the range of 1 to 20 %, as described in US 4,885,221.
• Another suitable class of cathode materials includes bilayers comprising a thin electron-injection layer
• EIL in contact with the organic layer (e.g., ETL), which is capped with a thicker layer of a conductive metal.
• the EIL preferably includes a low work function metal or metal salt, and if so, the thicker capping layer does not need to have a low work function.
• One such cathode is comprised of a thin layer of LiF followed by a thicker layer ofAl as described in US 5,677,572.
• Other useful cathode material sets include, but are not limited to, those disclosed in US 5,059,861; 5,059,862, and 6,140,763. When light emission is viewed through the cathode, the cathode must be transparent or nearly transparent.
• Optically transparent cathodes have been described in more detail in US 4,885,211, US 5,247,190, JP 3,234,963, US 5,703,436, US 5,608,287, US 5,837,391, US 5,677,572, US 5,776,622, US 5,776,623, US 5,714,838, US 5,969,474, US 5,739,545, US 5,981,306, US 6,137,223, US 6,140,763, US 6,172,459, EP 1 076 368, and US 6,278,236.
• Cathode materials are typically deposited by evaporation, sputtering, or chemical vapor deposition.
• patterning can be achieved through many well known methods including, but not limited to, through-mask deposition, integral shadow masking as described in US 5,276,380 and EP 0 732 868, laser ablation, and selective chemical vapor deposition.
• the organic materials mentioned above are suitably deposited through a vapor-phase method such as sublimation, but can be deposited from a fluid, for example, from a solvent with an optional binder to improve film formation. If the material is a polymer, solvent deposition is useful but other methods can be used, such as sputtering or thermal transfer from a donor sheet.
• the material to be deposited by sublimation can be vaporized from a sublimator "boat" often comprised of a tantalum material, e.g., as described in US 6,237,529, or can be first coated onto a donor sheet and then sublimed in closer proximity to the substrate. Layers with a mixture of materials can utilize separate sublimator boats or the materials can be pre-mixed and coated from a single boat or donor sheet. Patterned deposition can be achieved using shadow masks, integral shadow masks (US 5,294,870), spatially-defined thermal dye transfer from a donor sheet (US 5,851,709 and 6,066,357) and inkjet method (US 6,066,357).
• OLED devices are sensitive to moisture or oxygen, or both, so they are commonly sealed in an inert atmosphere such as nitrogen or argon, along wi t h a desiccant such as alumina, bauxite, calcium sulfate, clays, silica gel, zeolites, alkaline metal oxides, alkaline earth metal oxides, sulfates, or metal halides and perchlorates.
• a desiccant such as alumina, bauxite, calcium sulfate, clays, silica gel, zeolites, alkaline metal oxides, alkaline earth metal oxides, sulfates, or metal halides and perchlorates.
• Methods for encapsulation and desiccation include, but are not limited to, those described in US 6,226,890.
• barrier layers such as SiOx, Teflon, and alternating inorganic/polymeric layers are known in the art for encapsulation.
• OLED devices of this invention can employ various well-known optical effects in order to enhance its properties if desired. This includes optimizing layer thicknesses to yield maximum light transmission, providing dielectric mirror structures, replacing reflective electrodes with light-absorbing electrodes, providing anti-glare or anti-reflection coatings over the display, providing a polarizing medium over the display, or providing colored, neutral density, or color conversion filters over the display. Filters, polarizers, and antiglare or anti-reflection coatings may be specifically provided over the cover or as part of the cover. Although, it is possible to use color filters to modify the CIE coordinates of the OLEDs, optical effects, such as microcavities, may also be used to adjust the color of the light emission.
• optical methods may be used to tune the wavelength of the light emission from the device and may be used to create the color of the OLEDs or they may be used in conjunction with color filters.
• Methods for constructing a display device employing microcavities have been described in US 2004/0140757 and US 2004/0160172.
• a second particularly useful embodiment includes the use of several different OLED materials that are doped to provide different colors.
• the red 54, green 56, blue 58 and yellow 60 OLEDs (Fig. 5) may be composed of different OLED materials that are doped to produce different colored OLEDs.
• Fig. 7 which includes a plurality of OLEDs that are formed on a transparent substrate 100. On this substrate is formed an anode 102.
• each anode On each anode is formed a stack of organic light emitting diode materials 104, 106, 108, and 110. Over the organic light emitting diode materials a cathode 112 is formed.
• Each of the organic light emitting diode material stacks (e.g., 114, 116, 118 and 120) are formed from a hole injecting layer 104, a hole transporting layer 106, a light emitting layer 108, and an electron transporting layer 110.
• the light emitting layer and potentially other layers within the stack of organic light emitting diode materials are selected to provide a red, green, blue, and yellow light emitting OLEDs.
• One stack of light emitting diode materials 114 emits energy primarily in the long wavelength or red portion of the visible spectrum.
• a second stack of light emitting diode materials 116 emits energy primarily in the middle wavelength or green portion of the visible spectrum.
• a third stack of light emitting diode materials 118 emits energy primarily in the short wavelength or blue portion of the visible spectrum.
• the fourth stack of light emitting diode materials 120 emits energy in a midrange of wavelengths that are longer than the green portion of the visible spectrum. In this way, the four different materials form a four color OLED device including red, green, blue, and yellow.
• the display device has been discussed as having red, green, blue and yellow primaries, it will be understood by one skilled in the art that in order to improve the efficiency of the display device, the yellow primary may be replaced by one or more other OLEDs outside the gamut defined by the red, green and blue OLEDs that is higher in luminous efficiency than one of the remaining OLEDs.
• the display device will further comprise a signal processor associated to convert a standard three color input image signal to drive signals that drive the OLEDs in order to reduce the power consumption of the display device, extend the lifetime of the display device, or otherwise improve the performance of the display device. To provide a display with reduced power consumption, the conversion process must consider the efficiencies of the light emitting elements in the display to develop an appropriate conversion process.
• the display device has a white point, generally adjustable by hardware or software via methods known in the art, but fixed for the purposes of this example.
• the white point is the color resulting from the combination of the three color primaries, in this example the red, green, and blue primaries, being driven to their highest addressable extent.
• a common display white point of D65 with xy chromaticity values of (0.3127, 0.3290) has XYZ tristimulus values of (95.0, 100.0, 108.9).
• the phosphor matrix converts intensities to XYZ tristimulus values, effectively modeling the additive color system that is the display, and in its inversion, converts XYZ tristimulus values to intensities.
• the intensity of a primary is herein defined as a value proportional to the luminance of that primary and scaled such that the combination of unit intensity of each of the three primaries produces a color stimulus having XYZ tristimulus values equal to those of the display white point. This definition also constrains the scaling of the terms of the phosphor matrix.
• the OLED display example with red, green, and blue primary chromaticity coordinates of (0.6782, 0.3215), (0.2437, 0.6183), and (0.1495, 0.0401), respectively, with the D65 white point, has a phosphor matrix M3 :
• phosphor matrices are typically linear matrix transformations, but the concept of a phosphor matrix transform may be generalized to any transform or series of transforms that leads from intensities to XYZ tristimulus values, or vice-versa.
• the phosphor matrix may also be generalized to handle more than three primaries.
• the current example contains an additional primary with xy chromaticity coordinates (0.5306, 0.4659) - yellow. At a luminance arbitrarily chosen to be 100, the additional primary has XYZ tristimulus values of (113.9, 100.0, 0.7512).
• the value of a phosphor matrix lies in its inversion, which allows for the specification of a color in XYZ tristimulus values and results in the intensities required to produce that color on the display device.
• the color gamut describes the range of colors whose reproduction is possible, and out-of-gamut XYZ tristimulus specifications result in intensities outside the range [0,1].
• gamut-mapping techniques may be applied to avoid this situation, but their use is tangential to the present invention and need not be discussed.
• the inversion is simple in the case of 3x3 phosphor matrix M3, but in the case of 3x4 phosphor matrix M4 it is not uniquely defined and therefore a single inverted 3x4 phosphor matrix cannot be utilized to provide a robust transformation.
• the method provided herein provides a method for assigning intensity values for all four primary channels without requiring the inversion of the 3x4 phosphor matrix.
• the method of the present invention begins with color signals for the red, green, and blue primaries, in this example, intensities.
• Fig. 8 a desirable approach which may be used in accordance with one embodiment of the invention is shown in Fig. 8. As shown in this figure, the process begins with inputting 122 the efficiencies for each primary. The primaries are then ranked 124 from least to most efficient.
• a list of all possible combinations of three primaries are determined 126.
• the average efficiency or similar entity which correlates with power consumption is calculated 128. This average efficiency may be calculated, e.g., by averaging the efficiencies of the three primaries used to form each subgamut. These subgamuts are then prioritized 130 by ordering them from the highest average efficiency to the lowest average efficiency.
• the chromaticity coordinates are also input 132 for each primary.
• the phosphor matrices are then calculated 134 for all subgamuts to be used in the color conversion.
• the primaries are then arranged 136 from the primary with the shortest wavelength energy to the primary with the longest wavelength energy.
• subgamut triangle 40 formed from ⁇ lue,' green and yellow OLEDs in Fig. 4 would have green OLED 32 as the center primary and the blue OLED 34 and yellow OLED 36 primaries as the neighboring end primaries.
• a second non-overlapping subgamut would be defined by red OLED 30 as the center primary and the blue OLED 34 and yellow OLED 36 primaries as the neighboring end primaries.
• the theoretical intensities for forming each primary that is not in each subgamut are calculated 140 (e.g., for subgamut 40, the theoretical intensities are calculated for forming the red OLED 42 primary). While it is not physically possible to form these colors using these gamuts, this calculation is useful as the ratios of the intensities for the outside primaries in the gamut define a line that segments subgamuts within the color space.
• the ratio of the theoretical intensities of the two primaries that are at the ends of the current subgamut used to form each primary outside the current subgamut is then calculated 142.
• a set of decision rules are constructed 144 from this information.
• the decision rules are formed knowing that any color which has positive intensities when formed from one of the subgamuts determined in step 138 will lie within that subgamut. Any color that has negative values will lie outside the subgamut. However, any color having a ratio that is larger than the ratio determined in step 142 will lie to the same side of a line as the end primary that is used in the numerator of the ratio calculation performed in step 142 where this line intercepts the center primary and the corresponding primary from outside of the subgamut.
• a set of logic may be formed that indicates all possible home subgamuts for any input color which may be defined from a set of n primaries by calculating n-2 sets of intensity values and n 2 comparisons as opposed to calculating the intensities for all n!/(3!*(n-3)! combinations of the n primaries.
• the decision rules constructed 144 will also consider the priority of the subgamuts to provide a look-up table indicating which subgamut will be applied as a result of the calculations that are performed for each color that is input to the system. Steps 122 through steps 144 are dependent upon the primaries, their efficiencies and their chromaticity coordinates and for this reason, must only be performed once.
• the XYZ values are input 148 for each color.
• the intensities and ratios for each set of XYZ values are then calculated 146 for each of the non-overlapping and neighboring subgamuts determined in step 138.
• all subgamuts useful in creating the desired color are determined 150.
• the lowest priority subgamut e.g., the subgamut with the lowest average efficiency
• All additional primaries that are not in the lowest priority subgamut are then determined 154.
• a family of mixing ratios or functions are input 156.
• any color may be formed from 2 or more subgamuts.
• the proportion of a set of intensities for a more energy efficient subgamut used to form a color as opposed to the proportion of a set of intensities for a less efficient subgamut that may be used to form the same color will be referred to as the "mixing ratio".
• the red element is not turned completely off in this example, leading to a display that will have a more uniform appearance in flat image areas. Therefore, even if one does not calculate a correlate to an important display parameter, it may still be desirable to calculate a color from more than one gamut and to mix the intensities of the primaries from these two color gamuts to make the desired color.
• the process shown in Fig.9 is conducted to perform the color conversion. As shown in Fig. 9, the three color input signals (XYZ) are input 160 into the system. These CIE XYZ tristimulus values may be calculated from other color metrics (RGB, YCC, etc.) using known methods.
• the input phosphor matrix for the lowest priority gamut capable of producing the desired color is selected 162 as discussed in step 152 of Fig. 8.
• the intensities that are required from the three primaries forming the lowest priority subgamut to produce the three-color input signal (XYZ) are then calculated 164 by multiplying the XYZ values by the phosphor matrix.
• the two useful subgamuts will be defined by a combination of the red, green and blue primaries and a combination of the green, yellow and blue primaries.
• the intensities of the red, green, and blue primaries would thus be calculated for the color input signal (XYZ) in step 164.
• the least efficient of the remaining primaries determined in step 154 of Fig. 8 is then selected 166.
• the intensity values calculated in step 164 are normalized 168 with respect to the CIE XYZ tristimulus values of the least efficient of the remaining primaries.
• the red, green and blue intensities are normalized such that the combination of unit intensity of each produces a color stimulus having CIE XYZ tristimulus values equal to those of the yellow primary.
• the normalized signals are used to calculate 170 a common signal S that is a function Fl(An, Bn, Cn).
• the function FI is a special minimum function that chooses the smallest non-negative signal of the three normalized values.
• the common signal S is used to calculate 172 the value of function F2(S).
• function F2 provides arithmetic inversion:
• the output of function F2 is added 176 to the normalized color signals, resulting in normalized output signals (An', Bn', Cn') 178 corresponding to the original primary channels.
• These signals are normalized 180 to the display white point by scaling by the intensities required to reproduce the color of the yellow primary using the gamut-defining primaries, resulting in the output signals (A', B', C) which correspond to the input color channels:
• the common signal S is used to calculate 174 the value of function F3(S).
• function F3 is simply the identity fimction.
• the output of function F3 is assigned to the output signal, which is the color signal for the first of the additional primaries.
• the functions F2 and F3 may be defined in any number of ways. In one desirable fashion, the functions F2 and F3 may include a common multiplier where this multiplier is the mixing ratio that is input in step 156 of Fig. 8. Alternative definitions of these functions may include other linear or nonlinear relationships between the common signal S and the output of the function.
• the "mixing ratio" may be more broadly defined to include the parameter sets or descriptions of these relationships.
• the functions FI, F2 and F3 maybe defined differently based upon the iteration or primary being added during the color conversion process.
• a decision 182 is made to determine if all primaries have been included in the process. If yes, as would be the case in the red, green, blue, and yellow example used here, the process is completed 184. However, if not, one of the primaries is set aside 186. The primary to be set aside is typically the one with the lowest intensity value but this primary may be selected in a number of other ways.
• Additional primaries are then added, stepping through this process for each additional primary, starting with selecting 166 the next most efficient of the remaining primaries and normalizing 168 the intensities of the primaries that remain after step 186 to the chromaticity coordinates of the next most efficient primary.
• the method that has been described in detail calculates the intensities required of the primaries which define the lowest priority subgamut that may be used to form any color. Following this calculation, successive, more efficient, primaries which may be used in combination with these primaries to form the desired color are added and the combinations of intensities within the subgamut defined by this more efficient primary and two other primaries within the CIE chromaticity space are calculated.
• a subgamut is defined as a combination of the intensities of three of the more than three OLEDs. As applied here, only a fraction of the colors that may be produced by the display device will lie within any single subgamut. Progressing from the lowest priority subgamut to subgamuts including more efficient primaries will typically insure that the intensity combinations that are formed will be more power efficient than any other combination. Instances where a more efficient combination could be used may still be possible (e.g., where two primaries which may be used are very close in efficiencies), but will only result in a minimal decrease in power consumption.
• an important display parameter e.g., power consumption, current, current density, etc.
• one system that has been investigated by the authors included cyan and yellow primaries that were much more efficient than the remaining primaries and in this particular case, the most efficient means of forming any color required the calculation of only the non-overlapping cyan/yellow/green; cyan yellow/red; and yellow/red/blue subgamuts.
• cyan and yellow primaries that were much more efficient than the remaining primaries and in this particular case, the most efficient means of forming any color required the calculation of only the non-overlapping cyan/yellow/green; cyan yellow/red; and yellow/red/blue subgamuts.
• a parallel processor may be used to produce intensity values for all three subgamuts and then selection of drive intensities only requires one to determine the set of intensity values with only positive (physically realizable) intensity values.
• the mixing ratio referred to in the method shown in Fig. 8 and Fig. 9 may be a constant value, resulting in equal ratios of luminance between the OLEDs within the subgamuts.
• the mixing ratio may alternatively be a function of the common signal S.
• smaller mixing ratios may be used for low luminance signals where the visibility of luminance nonuniformities due to having one or more OLEDs turned off are less likely to be appreciated by a human observer.
• Larger mixing ratios may be used when the luminance or intensity signal is high to not only help improved the perceived uniformity of the display device but to also spread the energy across multiple OLEDs to prevent driving any single OLED to very high luminance outputs, which typically will result in increased degradation of the OLED materials.
• Use of a function such as this will result in unequal luminance ratios between the OLEDs within the subgamuts as a function of luminance output level.
• a nonlinear function may simply be introduced using a look-up table.
• a cost function could be applied that balances more than two important display attributes (e.g., image quality and power efficiency) and this cost function may be employed to select the proportion of each subgamut to apply.
• function FI chooses the minimum non-negative signal
• F2 and F3 determine how accurate the color reproduction will be for in-gamut colors. If F2 and F3 are both linear functions, F2 having negative slope and F3 having positive slope, the effect is the subtraction of intensity from the primaries with the lowest efficiencies and the addition of intensity to the primary with the next most highest efficiency.
• the method for converting from a three- color signal to a four or more color signal may be instantiated in an ASIC or other hardware device that allows the conversion to be computed in real time. It will be recognized by one skilled in the art that it may have alternative embodiments.
• the algorithm may be programmed in software and used to provide a real-time conversion.
• the algorithm may be used to create a 3D look-up table (LUT) or a matrix approximation to a 3D look-up table and this LUT may be embedded in an ASIC, software or alterative device to allow the color conversion to be performed in real time.
• functions F2 and F3 may be designed to vary according to the color represented by the color input signals. For example, the functions may become steeper as the luminance increases or the color saturation decreases, or they may change with respect to the hue of the color input signal (R,G, B). There are many combinations of functions F2 and F3 that will provide color accuracy with different levels of utilization of the additional primary with respect to the RGB primaries.
• FIG. 10 shows the characteristic curve for an OLED, illustrating its non-linear intensity response to code value.
• the curve has a knee 200 above which it is much more linear in appearance than below.
• Using code value to approximate intensity for the total curve may lead to significant color reproduction errors, but subtracting a constant (approximately 175 for the example shown in Fig. 3) to use the knee 200 shown, from the code value makes a much better approximation for values above such constant.
• the signals (R,G,B) provided to the method shown in Figure 8 are calculated as follows:
• this method includes selecting an averaging area 210. That is, a group of pixels are selected over which to perform some smoothing of the mixing ratio.
• steps 160 to 170 are performed in Fig. 9 to calculate 212 the common signal (S) as shown in Fig. 9 for each pixel within this selected group.
• the minimum and maximum common signal is then determined 214 within the selected averaging area. Weights for combining these minimum and maximum values are then selected 216 and used to calculate 218 a weighted average of the minimum and maximum values. This weighted average is then compared 220 to the original common signal (S) and the smallest value is selected 222. Once the new common signal has been selected 222, the remaining steps of the method shown in Fig. 9 are completed.
• Fig. 11 the steps of Fig. 11 are completed each time a common signal (S) is computed. It should be recognized that the method shown in Fig. 11 will be of most value whenever the functions F2 and F3 shift a large proportion of the common signal from the normalized signal to the fourth signal. In fact, an alternative method of insuring higher image quality is to select functions F2 and F3 that shift one half or less of the common signal (S) from the original primaries to the additional primary.
• the functions F2 and F3 may be static functions but may also be altered in response to a control signal. In the embodiment described here, it is assumed that the additional primaries that are added to the display system are more efficient than at least one of the red, green, and blue elements.
• a material may be employed for the additional primary having a chromaticity coordinate that is positioned closer to the OLED with the shortest luminance stability over time than to the chromaticity coordinates of the other OLEDs. Positioning the additional OLED according to this criteria reduces the overall usage of the closest gamut-defining OLED, extending the lifetime of the closest gamut-defining OLED. Using this criteria and ordering the primaries and prioritizing the gamuts according to this criteria can allow this method to extend the overall lifetime of a display device having more than three primaries.
• the additional OLED is more efficient than at least one of the red, green, or blue OLEDs, the current density or power required to drive the additional OLED is lower than the current density required to drive the less luminance efficient OLEDs when producing the same color and luminance.
• the luminance stability over time of the materials used to create the OLED is typically related to the current density used to drive the OLED through a very non-linear function in which the luminance stability over time of the material is much poorer when driven to higher current densities. In fact, the function used to describe this relationship can typically be described as a power function.
• any OLED it is not desirable to drive any OLED to current densities that are higher than a given threshold where the function describing the luminance stability over time is particularly steep.
• the color reproduction e.g., hue
• One way is to determine the red, green, or blue code values that will exceed this threshold, determine the difference in luminance for the display when the display is to be driven to the threshold response for any of the code values that exceed the threshold when compared to the luminance for the display when the display would be driven to the desired luminance and to add this difference in luminance to the luminance of the additional OLED.
• the desired display luminance is achieved without surpassing the threshold current density for the red, green, or blue OLEDs.
• the luminance of the display is achieved by sacrificing the color accuracy of the displayed image and using the method described here, the color accuracy for the highly saturated, bright colors within the image may be reduced.
• control signal will typically be dependent upon user settings, a state of the display system, the image content to be displayed, the power available to the display system, and/or a measurement of ambient illumination.
• the display system may additionally adjust the luminance of the display to maintain display visibility under the appropriate ambient illumination conditions.
• the user is given the ability to trade image quality as affected by the mixing ratio for power efficiency.
• This conversion may additionally be dependent upon the luminance of the display.
• the display system may change the conversion to provide higher utilization of OLEDs with higher power efficiency and/or luminance stability over time for other luminance values. By doing this, conditions that may demand excessive power, or brightness, or may cause an unacceptable degradation of the display device may be avoided by adjusting mixing ratios.
• An embodiment of this invention, including a control signal is shown in Fig. 12. Referring to Fig. 12.
• the system includes an input device 230, processor 232, memory 234, display driver 236 and display device 238,
• the input device 230 may include any traditional input device including a joystick, trackball, mouse, rotating dial, switch, button or graphic user interface that may be used to select among two or more options from a series of user options.
• the processor 232 is any, or combination of any, digital or analog, general-purpose or custom controller(s) capable of performing the logic and calculation steps necessary to perform the steps of this invention.
• the processor 232 may be any computing device suitable to an application and may, or may not, be combined into a single component with the display driver 236.
• the memory 234 ideally includes nonvolatile, writable memory that can be used to store user selections including EPROMS, EEPROMS, memory cards, or magnetic or optical discs.
• the display driver 236 is one or more analog or digital signal processors or controllers capable of receiving a standard three-color image signal and converting this signal to a power-saving or lifetime-preserving drive signal compatible with the display device of the present invention.
• the display driver 236 will convert a 3-color signal to a 4-color signal.
• This display driver is additionally capable of receiving a control signal 235 from the processor 232 or a control signal 237 from an external source (not shown) and adjusting the conversion process in response to this control signal. Either or both control signals 235 or 237 may be employed.
• the processor 232 may supply the control signal 235 in response to, e.g., information regarding the age of the display, the charge of the power source, the content of the information to be displayed on the display 238, or the ambient illumination. Alternatively these signals may be supplied through an external control signal 237 from an ambient illumination sensor (for example a photosensor) or a device for measuring or recording the age of the display, or the charge of a power source.
• the display device 238 is an OLED display device such as has been disclosed earlier having an array of pixels, each pixel having OLEDs for providing red, green, and blue colors and an additional OLED that lies beyond the gamut boundary formed by the red, green and blue OLEDs and is more efficient than at least one of the other gamut-defining OLEDs.
• control signal may be produced by a signal representing the ambient illumination.
• the display driver 236 or processor 232 may respond to a signal representing the level of light in the ambient illumination.
• the color conversion process may be adjusted to convert a large proportion of the common signal (S) from the original three primaries to an additional primary to preserve power.
• mixing ratio may be selected to convert a smaller proportion of the common signal (S) from the original three primaries to an additional primary so that better image quality is provided under these viewing conditions.
• the variation in the mixing ratio is accomplished gradually as the ambient light illumination increases so that any changes are imperceptible to a viewer. It is possible to limit the mixing ratio to some maximum (or minimum) value to optimize overall performance.
• a function for example a linear or exponential function relating the mixing ratio and the ambient illumination to determine the mixing ratio desired at a particular ambient illumination level.
• Such functions may have limits, or damping constants, to limit the rate of change of the mixing ratio to reduce the perceptibility of any mixing ratio changes.
• the mixing ratio may be reduced. If images are shown on a display, the mixing ratio may be increased.
• graphic interfaces tend to use graphic elements for long times at specific locations, possibly causing the light-emissive materials at those display locations to degrade more rapidly than in other locations.
• the present invention may be employed to reduce both the current and the range of current densities in those locations. Therefore, the rate of degradation of the emissive materials and color differential degradation may be reduced.
• Fig. 13 shows another potential pixel layout.
• the display device 240 is composed of an array of pixels 242.
• the pixel 242 is composed of a red 244, green 246, blue 248 and an additional (e.g., yellow) 250 OLED.
• the OLEDs are more spatially symmetric having nearly equal vertical and horizontal dimensions.
• Fig. 14 shows a display device 260 composed of an array of pixels. Each pixel 262 is composed of a red 264, a green 266, and a blue 268 OLED. Additionally, the pixel includes two additional (e.g., yellow) OLEDs 270 and 272.
• the additional OLEDs are diagonally located at opposing corners of the pixel to maximize the spacing of these OLEDs.
• the red and green OLEDs which have the most luminance excluding the additional OLEDs, are further located diagonally across the opposing corners of the pixel.
• the additional OLED luminance that is calculated from the intensities is divided equally between the two additional OLEDs and the code value for each of the additional OLEDs is determined for one half of the calculated luminance value. It may be further recognized that one OLED will carry more luminance or require more power than other OLEDs, making it potentially desirable to have more of one the red, green and blue OLEDs than another within a pixel.
• Fig. 15 shows a display device 280 with an array of pixels.
• the pixel 282 is composed of one red OLED 284, two green OLEDs 286 and 288, one blue OLED 290 and two yellow OLEDs 294 and 296. It is desirable to maximize the separation of the yellow 294 and 296 and green OLEDs 286 and 288 within the pixel structure. As shown in Fig. 15, this is accomplished by placing each of the yellow OLEDs 294 and 296 at diagonally opposing corners of the pixel. The green OLEDs 286 and 288 are also positioned at diagonally opposing corners of the pixel 282.
• the luminance for the green OLEDs 286 and 288 and the yellow OLEDs 294 and 296 is calculated by dividing the luminance derived from the intensity values calculated for the green and yellow OLEDs by the number of OLEDs of the green and yellow OLEDs within the pixel 282. It should be recognized that while one reason for using more OLEDs of one color than another is to improve the perceived sharpness of the OLED display device, it may also be desirable to use fewer OLEDs of one color than another (assuming that the OLEDs all have the same light emitting area) for a different reason.
• Each pixel 302 in this display device may, for example, consist of a red 308, green 306, blue 304, yellow 312 and cyan 310 OLED.
• white and many of the colors near white may be formed using a primarily the cyan 310 and yellow 312 OLEDs! If these two primaries are more efficient than two of the red 308, green 306, and blue 304 OLEDs, these more efficient primaries can be used to form the most frequently occurring colors and result in significantly decreased power consumption.
• Stacking ofselected OLED primaries may also be employed to address display uniformity when employing more than three primaries, for example stacking blue and cyan primaries or red and yellow primaries. Additional patterns may be employed similarly as disclosed in US 2004/0251820. It should be noted that any of the different patterns of OLEDs that are used to define a pixel that the relative areas of the different OLEDs may be adjusted to preserve the lifetime to balance the lifetime of the different OLEDs within a pixel. It should also be noted that the interpolation algorithms that were discussed earlier to enhance the perceived resolution of the OLED display device may also be applied in any of these patterns.
• step 128 calculate average efficiencies step 130 prioritize subgamuts step 132 input chromaticity coordinates of primaries step 134 calculate phosphor matrices step 136 arrange primaries step 138 determine neighboring subgamuts step 140 calculate intensities of remaining primaries step 142 calculate ratios step 144 construct decision rules step 146 calculate intensities and ratios step 148 input XYZ values step 150 determine useful gamuts step 152 select lowest priority gamut step 154 determine additional primaries step

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